DevOps Lead

Job Title: DevOps Lead

Job ID: 2023-11974

Job Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ or Alpharetta, GA

Key Technology: Ansible, Jira, Harness, GitHub, Jenkins

Job Responsibilities:

• Learn and improve existing Ansible based framework and playbooks.
• Help Application owners understand the framework and its benefits.
• Collaborate with Application teams and onboard new application platforms onto the Ansible framework and author playbooks.
• Test and demo the capability of the completed playbooks and deployment engine.
• Assist Application teams in deploying into Production.
• Build CI/CD orchestration pipelines based on Git.
• Manage multiple projects with an eye on high quality and timely delivery.
• Demonstrate ownership, accountability, proactive attitude, and leadership in the delivery of work.
• Be trusted to resolve unclear but urgent tasks.
• Manage features/sub-features/stories related to own work in JIRA.
• Collaborate with engineering teams (network, firewall, systems, data center) to procure and deploy Linux servers with Harness Delegates.
• Collaborate with network and firewall teams to ensure connectivity from Harness to Production systems.

Skills and Experience Required:

• 5+ years’ experience in creating and deploying Ansible frameworks and playbooks.
• 5+ years’ experience managing configuration, build, and deployments for enterprise software solutions.
• Experience using applications such as Jira, Harness, GitHub, Jenkins.
• Development experience with Python or Perl or other scripting languages.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux technologies.
• Multi-tasking experience – managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills – written and spoken.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Understanding of network fundamentals, APIs, and HTTP protocol.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practices.
• Ability to understand critical issues and bring appropriate resolution to complex issues.
• High degree of professionalism and self-motivation.